No judge in sight to head Hong Kong's lead-in-water inquiry yet
Tough to get suitable candidates, Carrie Lam says two weeks after the CE vowed probe
Everything is in place for a commission of inquiry into the city's water contamination scare - except for the chairman and the only other member of the body - the chief secretary says.
No one had yet been named, more than two weeks after Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said he would appoint an independent high-level body, led by a judge, to study why drinking water in some public residential estates contained excessive lead.
Leung's No2, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, said yesterday that it was proving tough to find suitable people to conduct the investigation, the third announced into the tainted-water scare.
She also clarified for the first time that just two people - the judge, plus one other - would make up the commission.
"The secretary, secretariat staff, office and hearing venue of the inquiry commission are all ready," Lam said.
